The main types of developmental delays in children include cognitive, emotional, motor skills, vision, and speech. Your textbook addresses "sensory contributions to learning,” and how important these executive processes such as sight, touch, taste, smell, acoustics and emotions are to learning (Jensen, 2008). A child can experience cognitive, emotional, motor skills, vision and speech delays in learning. How does understanding sensory contribution to learning help you develop strategies to teach children with developmental delays?

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How does understanding sensory contribution to learning help you develop strategies to teach children with developmental delays?

A teacher must have a solid understanding of sensory contribution in order to develop strategies and lesson plans to teach children with developmental delays. It is of utmost importance that teachers respond to their developmentally delayed students in a way that is sensory appropriate so that the student is able to gain the most he can out of the learning process. An understanding of sensory contributions can impact the learning process through sight, touch, tast